Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undoubtedly the grimness of the war was coming home to the German people. The Russian campaign had been neither swift nor bloodless. German families without a casualty in Poland, France, the Balkans, Africa or Crete heard that a son, a father, a husband, a sweetheart or a friend had been killed in the fighting against Russia. The R.A.F. was pounding harder, by day as well as night (see p. 17). And though midsummer had come as a late blessing to homes heatless by decree since May 1, warmth was the only mitigation of Germany's joyless and complicated living...
...SWIFT Bloomfield...
...110th to a 15-mile marching race. Wrote the 250th: "If we don't finish first without having to write our Congressmen, we'll let you yoo-hoo at us." At a bathing-beauty revue at the El Paso (Tex.) Country Club, brimstony Major General Innis Palmer Swift, commander of Fort Bliss (and one of the judges) watched the girls prance by, and owlishly hooted "Yoo-Hoo." And out of the Memphis Incident came World War II's first nickname for a U.S. outfit: the 110th's marchers became "The Yoo-Hoo Battalion...
...During swift turns and pullouts from dives, pilots cannot avoid momentary blackout-loss of consciousness-because blood rushes from the head. Small, heavy-set pilots are more resistant to blackout than tall, slender men, and those leading a sedentary life have more resistance than men in athletic training. Men with high blood pressure are less affected by dives...
Authoress Strauss specializes in the cultivated titter, the swift verbal snickersnee...